Introduction: Welcome to the new re-edited version of "Mountain Dew"! I decided to clean up the original version which had some spelling and grammatical errors. This version also changed a few different things around that I felt were needed to make it easier to understand and to clear up some plot holes. As an added bonus, I appended a completely new BONUS chapter at the end. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't see why this is needed, considering this is FANfiction(dot)net, hence the FAN, meaning that we obviously don't own it. If we did, I'm sure we would be too busy vacationing on our private yachts that we bought with all our entitlement earnings.
Mountain Dew
A Teen Titan Fan Fic by ZePuKa
Chapter 1: Just a day, just an ordinary day…
"Oh, what a glorious day!" the attractive Tamaranian princess exclaimed as she sat up in bed. She threw the covers to the side of the bed, and with the help of TV magic, left her room without even having to brush her hair, get dressed, or do her make-up. Starfire beamed, her smile radiating throughout the T tower as she made her way to the kitchen to cook some home-style klorpken (which resembles a bowl of oatmeal…with squid chunks and some strange round, glowing orbs…yum.) for breakfast. "Morning's greetings, my friends, and may the great X'Hal keep you in good health on this wonderful day!" she said cheerily, surveying the room full of titans. Her greeting was met with a few mumbled "Morning, Starfire…"s as they continued to eat their food gloomily. "What is wrong, my friends? What could possibly trouble you on such a fine day?"
"Oh nothing," Beastboy replied sarcastically, "MAYBE WE'RE JUST FRICKIN' TIRED FROM THE LACK OF SLEEP BECAUSE THE STUPID VILLIANS ARE BEING STUPID AND WON'T LEAVE US STUPIDS ALONE, STUPID!"
"Beastboy, no matter how tired you are; you are not permitted to refer to any of my team mates in such a derogatory fashion." Robin reprimanded while glaring at the grumpy changeling.
"At least his name calling was spot on for one out of the five he referenced" Raven interjected, smiling inwardly as her comment elicited a glare from Beastboy.
"I am sorry, friend Beastboy, I did not mean to upset you." Starfire replied, hoping her apology would lighten the obviously darkened mood of her comrades.
"Don't be," Robin said, "We're the ones that should be sorry; we're all just a little tired and that last run-in with Mumbo made us all a bit testy."
"Don't remind me," Raven jumped in with her monotone voice, and then with slightly more emotion added, "If he EVER dares to turn me into his bunny assistant again, I will-" She stopped suddenly, composing herself before something blew up. (Beastboy was looking warily at his cereal bowl, which had begun to levitate with Raven's last comment.)
Searching for a change in subject, Beastboy asked, "Hey, where's Cyborg?"
"I think he's still recharging." Robin replied, also glad that the focus was no longer on the stressing events of yesterday.
As if on cue, the doors to the kitchen burst open and Cyborg ran in saying, "Alright! Who's up for some WAFFLES!" Without waiting for a reply he started gathering all the necessary things for preparing them, not even noticing the tensed atmosphere in the common room.
Starfire floated over, her joy replenished over his enthusiasm, and gave him a bone-breaking hug. "Friend Cyborg! You are awake! And with good spirits!"
"You got that right, got my power cell recharged at 100 percent!" Cyborg replied.
All of a sudden, the titan alarm rang, halting the titan's breakfast progress. "Aw man!" Beastboy groaned, looking longingly at his unfinished tofu-and-soy-milk breakfast before following a sluggish Robin out the door. Even Raven was a little slower as she tried to keep up with Cyborg and Starfire, who were eager to begin the day with a battle. So they entered their underwater tunnel and headed toward the coast. Starfire felt a little left out, being the only one flying, but with how tired the other fliers were, they opted to catch a ride with Cyborg in the T-Car.
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"Oh no, not the Junk dude!" the shape-shifter moaned as he saw the new metal hog that was stampeding around Jump city.
"Titans, Go!" Robin ordered, as he leapt off his bike and used his grappling hook to swing onto the beast.
"Azarath, Metrion, ZINTHOS!" Raven chanted as she made the road in front of the metallic swine rise, blocking his path. The pig turned to the left, trying to escape when Starfire shot star bolts at him to keep him from retreating that way. He then went to the right, where Beastboy, in the form of wooly mammoth blockaded his path. Desperate, the boar turned to his last remaining path and ran towards it when Cyborg jumped out of his car and shot his plasma cannon at it. The pig then collapsed, dazed and confused, while Robin set his explosives on it to destroy it. Robin leaped of his back, and all the titans took cover as the mechanical monster exploded before their eyes. "BOO-YA!" Cyborg cheered, coming out from behind a nearby car.
"Nice job, team, let's head back to the tower." Robin ordered.
The team needed no further prodding as they all headed back to the tower for some much needed rest.
Little did they know that rest was far off…
